Fancy Quote by Ian Mcewan

Flying is done largely with the imagination.

— Wolfgang Langewiesche

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form…

— Julia Glass

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

— Samuel Hynes

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and…

— Joe Shuster

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

— Alice Hoffman

Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.

— Michael Parfit

“He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies…

— Maud Casey

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can…

— E. B. White

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

— Michael Light